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The WPIAL boys & girls soccer championships are underway with the Trinity boys and Canon-McMillan girls scoring first-round wins on Saturday. Charleroi, Chartiers-Houston & Ringgold boys, Waynesburg girls were eliminated during preliminary/first round soccer matches over the weekend. The first round wraps up Monday, with Wednesday’s quarterfinal sites/times posted. The championship matches are scheduled for Nov. 5-7 at the home of the Pittsburgh Riverhounds. Click for WPIAL brackets

Monday, Oct. 26, First Round
4A Boys #10 Canon-McMillan at #7 Pine-Richland, 7 pm
1A Girls #10 Chartiers-Houston vs. #7 Eden Christian Academy, 6 pm at North Allegheny
1A Girls #16 Beth-Center vs. #1 Sewickley Academy, 6 pm at Peters Township
1A Girls #5 Bentworth vs. #12 Aquinas Academy, 8 pm at Peters Township

Wednesday, Oct. 28, Quarterfinals
3A Boys #4 Trinity hosting #12 Chartiers Valley, 7 pm
1A Boys #1 Bentworth vs. #9 Freedom, 6 pm at Peters Township
4A Girls #7 Canon-McMillan at #2 Peters Township, 8 pm

Thursday, Oct. 29, Quarterfinals
4A Boys #3 Peters Township hosting #6 Fox Chapel / #11 Moon Area winner

Preliminary/First Round Scores
3A Boys #4 Trinity #13 Latrobe, 2-1 OT
3A Boys #6 Central Valley over #11 Ringgold, 2-1
2A Boys #13 Ambridge over #20 Charleroi, 9-0
1A Boys #6 Riverview over #11 Chartiers-Houston, 3-1
4A Girls #7 Canon-McMillan over #10 Armstrong, 7-1
2A Girls #5 Central Valley over #12 Waynesburg, 9-1

Eleven Washington County girls volleyball teams will open the WPIAL playoffs along with a pair of teams from Greene County. Six teams from the two-county area are included in the 2A bracket. All begin play Monday night, including a pair of matches against another local team: #11 Bentworth visits #6 Beth-Center while #2 Fort Cherry hosts #15 Carmichaels, the last team to qualify for the bracket.  3A (Chartiers-Houston, McGuffey, Waynesburg) and 4A (Ringgold) play their opening-round matches Tuesday along with 6A quarterfinalist #5 Canon-McMillan. Wednesday will bring 5A #1 Peters Township and #11 Trinity to the floor for first-round play. The WPIAL finals are set for Peters Township’s AHN Arena. 1A & 6A finals will be on Thursday, Nov. 5. The other four championship matches will be played on Saturday, Nov. 7. Click for WPIAL brackets.

Monday, Oct. 26 (First Round)
2A #2 Fort Cherry hosting #15 Carmichaels, 7 pm
2A #6 Beth-Center hosting #11 Bentworth, 7 pm
2A #9 California at #8 Springdale, 7 pm
2A #14 Wash High at #3 Frazier, 7 pm

Tuesday, Oct. 27 (First Round)
4A #10 Ringgold at #7 Knoch, 7 pm
3A #2 Waynesburg hosting #15 Quaker Valley, 7 pm
3A #7 McGuffey hosting #10 South Allegheny, 7 pm
3A #11 Chartiers-Houston at #6 Burrell, 7 pm

Tuesday, Oct. 27 (Quarterfinals)
6A #5 Canon-McMillan at #4 Baldwin, 7 pm

Wednesday, Oct. 28 (First Round)
5A #1 Peters Township hosting #16 North Hills/#17 Montour winner, 7 pm.
5A #11 Trinity at #6 Chartiers Valley, 7 pm

SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Aaron Rodgers threw one touchdown pass and Chris Boswell kicked three field goals in Pittsburgh’s 16-10 win over the New Orleans Saints in the NFL’s first regular-season game in France. Jaylen Warren rushed for 101 yards and Rodgers completed 19 of 30 passes for 212 yards and scrambled for a key first down late in fourth quarter as the Steelers won their third straight game. Linebacker Payton Wilson had a red zone interception of Tyler Shough in the third quarter and the Saints couldn’t recover. New Orleans rushed for just 18 yards.

No. 1 Miami is the only team to hold its spot in The Associated Press Top 25 after another wild week of college football. Idle Ohio State moved up to No. 2 in the wake of BYU’s loss at UCF and subsequent fall to No. 8. Georgia, Indiana and Notre Dame round out the top five after three more top-10 teams went down to make it 10 in the last three weeks. Miami, Utah and UCLA are the only remaining unbeaten Bowl Subdivision teams. Sportradar says that’s the fewest at this point in a season since there were three left in 1977.